begrudge

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Sounds to me like you might begrudge, and covet you neighbors goods.

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  1. transitive verb To envy the possession or enjoyment of: She begrudged him his youth. See Synonyms at envy.
  2. transitive verb To give or expend with reluctance: begrudged every penny spent.

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  • I cant understand the move but good luck to him, cant begrudge him for going. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Now it's not that I begrudge GM's hardworking employees who individually had nothing to do with the company's collapse, but I have to ask: —  BloggingStocks
  • I agree, most won't have 200 in their libraries and i'd still begrudge ...... —  The Bleeding Edge
  • Much as I don't begrudge him his stateside success with House and, now, Hollywood blockbuster Street Kings (in which he plays a grisled police captain alongside Forest Whitaker and Keanu Reeves), I do miss the larkish charm that he brought to TV programmes like Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • To be fair though, we can't begrudge Vin Diesel all that much though. —  bit-tech.net Feed
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  1. Early modern English also begrutch, from Middle English begrucchen: see be and grudge.
 

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